Helper.
(A Coupling, 2; Kelly’s Song)

Silence. A stillness settles
over the garden floor.
Shadows lengthen;
a holy pause
between one breath
and the next.

The human rests,
consciousness hanging
in suspension—
laid down by mercy,
held by grace.
Waiting without knowing
what gift is forming
in the quiet.

Earth. Bone.
Blood. Breath.

Shape in Shaper’s hands.
Warmth woven,
strength softened,
beauty breathed. Life rising.
She stands—
light on her shoulders,
glory in her gaze,
a reflection answering a reflection.

She approaches—
step; bearing presence,
step; bringing peace.
The ache finds its echo;
the longing, its language.

Two lives meeting.
Two hearts awakened
by the same Voice.

And in this union—
this joining of knowing
and being known—
the Image gleams
in fullness.

Here is your wife
Life.